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Richardson Withdraws From Commerce | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

I do not think that Barak Obama is "authentically black", Booman. Nor did he run on that part of his ethnicity. He grew up in a sort of racial limbo. Hawaii is as mixed racially as it is possible to be. Kinky hair? Oh. You mean like so many South Pacific islanders? Skin that is less that lily white? Oh. You mean like so many Asians? Was his physical appearance "black" enough to get him messed with in any number of areas of the U.S.? Yes indeed. But culturally he grew up "other". NOT black as it is usually meant in contemporary American society.

He ran as an American; that he damned well is, and he has my utmost respect for that choice

Now...contrast his choice with Richardson's craven set of hustles.

There is no comparison. Richardson's skin color modulation was one of the most bald-faced, racist acts that I have ever witnessed in American politics. He's just a shape-shifter version of the classic Renfield political type.

Scooter Libby trying to pass in the neighborhood.

Calling other posters names?

I wrote :

Goddamn I am sick of humorless PC motherfuckers!!!

In the plural.

A true statement.

Someone fits into that category?

SO sorry!!!

If the shoe fits...walk in it.

Giving other posters the finger?

I wrote:

PC this, Brementown. I got yer PC, right here!!!

Followed by an image of some hostile young Hispanics...who were, as I recall the context of that image, being photographed as they waited in a park for day work. (YOU know? Like so many other Central American laborers in the U.S. l who are "being exploited by the middle and upper-middle classes?" [from my original response])

There is the "PC" of the used and abused.

A crotch grab, an upraised finger and the "Huh, uh huh huh huh huh" laugh of people likew Flash & The Furious Five. A laugh that does not mean "Ha ha" no matter in which dialect it is being laughed.

The one that I am currently laughing at this very moment.

I gave him/her the real "PC".

Right there.

That is true "political correctness". Not this faux politeness of the Reid/Pelosi class.

You want political correctness?

How about a public hanging of war criminals on the DC mall?

Televised worldwide.

There would be some "PC" to which I could subscribe.

What I did?

It ain't shit.

Later...

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:03:13 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

just chill out and be respectful. I don't care about your argument. I think it's bogus and mildly offensive, but I'm reprimanding you for being a prick to another user, not for making your argument.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:43:27 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

Show me how it's bogus.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:02:39 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

It's not worth my time, Arthur. If you want to argue what it means to be authentically black that's your waste of time, not mine.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:04:03 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

You are the one that brought "authentically black" up, not me. All I was saying was that Richardson used his his ethnicity as a political tool, that he played both ends against the middle in doing so, and that he is a dishonest political hustler.

In a political sense, if I was born in Harlem or Ghana or someplace of an African-ascended mother and a European-ascended father, has a racially fairly neutral set of names could with a little application of makeup or what have you easily pass for someone of either purely European bloodlines or multi-ethnic ones and used that possibility to get over in whatever political direction most suited my ambitions, what the fuck would I be?

I would be a dishonest, race card-using (in both directions) political hustler.

That was my point.

What is yours?

That I was a little...shall we say "rude", or just "honest"? ...with a PC geeky poster?

Sorry.

The finger was for ALL PC-blinded fools, not just that one.

What?

Are we on CBS now?

I hope not.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:40:36 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

whatever.

by BooMan on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:46:00 PM EST
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Re: I mind my honesty and honor first, Booman. (none / 0)

Good argument.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 02:00:40 PM EST
[ Parent ]

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